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This is the 4.0.1 stable release

Linaro 15.04

Linux 4.1-rc1

More power management and ACPI updates for v4.1-rc1

 - Fix a build warning in the intel_pstate driver showing up in non-SMP
   builds (Borislav Petkov).

 - Change one of the intel_pstate's P-state selection parameters for
   Baytrail and Cherrytrail CPUs to significantly improve performance
   at the cost of a small increase in energy consumption (Kristen
   Carlson Accardi).

 - Fix a NULL pointer dereference in the ACPI EC driver due to an unsafe
   list walk in the query handler removal routine (Chris Bainbridge).

 - Get rid of a false-positive lockdep warning in the ACPI container
   hot-remove code (Rafael J Wysocki).

 - Prevent the ACPI device enumeration code from creating device
   objects of a wrong type in some cases (Rafael J Wysocki).

 - Add Skylake processors support to the Intel RAPL power capping
   driver (Brian Bian).

 - Drop the stale MAINTAINERS entry for the ACPI dock driver that is
   regarded as part of the ACPI core and maintained along with it now
   (Chao Yu).

 - Fix cpupower tool breakage caused by a library API change in libpci
   3.3.0 (Lucas Stach).

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sound fixes for 4.1-rc1

Here are a few fixes that have been pending since the previous pull
request: a regression fix for HD-audio multiple SPDIF / HDMI devices,
several ALC256 codec fixes, a couple of i915 HDMI audio fixes, and
various small fixes.

Nothing exciting, just boring, but things good to have.

- dither support for ns2501 dvo (Thomas Richter)
- some polish for the gtt code and fixes to finally enable the cmd parser on hsw
- first pile of bxt stage 1 enabling (too many different people to list ...)
- more psr fixes from Rodrigo
- skl rotation support from Chandra
- more atomic work from Ander and Matt
- pile of cleanups and micro-ops for execlist from Chris

This mostly includes the PPC changes for 4.1, which this time cover
Book3S HV only (debugging aids, minor performance improvements and some
cleanups).  But there are also bug fixes and small cleanups for ARM,
x86 and s390.

The task_migration_notifier revert and real fix is still pending review,
but I'll send it as soon as possible after -rc1.

Devicetree updates for 4.1:

- DT endianness specification bindings
- Big endian 8250 serial support
- DT overlay unittest updates
- Various DT doc updates
- Compile fixes for OF_IRQ=n

media updates for v4.1-rc1

The changes to the common clock framework for 4.0 are mostly new clock
drivers and updates to existing ones for feature enhancements and bug
fixes. There is more churn than usual in the framework core due to the
change to introduce per-user unique struct clk pointers in 4.0. This
caused several regressions to surface, some of which were sent as fixes
to 4.0. New generic clock drivers were added for GPIO- and PWM-based
clock controllers. Additionally the common clk-divider code recieved
several fixes to the way it rounds rates.

Linux 3.18.12

IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.1

Not much this time, but the changes include:

	* Moving domain allocation into the iommu drivers to prepare for
	  the introduction of default domains for devices

	* Fixing the IO page-table code in the AMD IOMMU driver to
	  correctly encode large page sizes

	* Extension of the PCI support in the ARM-SMMU driver

	* Various fixes and cleanups

This is the 3.10.75 stable release

This is the 3.14.39 stable release

This is the 3.19.5 stable release

This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.1 development
cycle:

- A new GPIO hogging mechanism has been added. This can
  be used on boards that want to drive some GPIO line high,
  low, or set it as input on boot and then never touch it
  again. For some embedded systems this is bliss and
  simplifies things to a great extent.

- Some API cleanup and closure: gpiod_get_array() and
  gpiod_put_array() has been added to get and put GPIOs
  in bulk as was possible with the non-descriptor API.

- Encapsulate cross-calls to the pin control subsystem in
  <linux/gpio/driver.h>. Now this should be the only header
  any GPIO driver needs to include or something is wrong.
  Cleanups restricting drivers to this include are welcomed
  if tested.

- Sort the GPIO Kconfig and split it into submenus, as
  it was becoming and unstructured, illogical and
  unnavigatable mess. I hope this is easier to follow.
  Menus that require a certain subsystem like I2C can
  now be hidden nicely for example, still working on
  others.

- New drivers:

    - New driver for the Altera Soft GPIO.

    - The F7188x driver now handles the F71869 and
      F71869A variants.

    - The MIPS Loongson driver has been moved to
      drivers/gpio for consolidation and cleanup.

- Cleanups:

   - The MAX732x is converted to use the GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
     infrastructure.

   - The PCF857x is converted to use the GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP
     infrastructure.

   - Radical cleanup of the OMAP driver.

- Misc:

   - Enable the DWAPB GPIO for all architectures. This is
     a "hard IP" block from Synopsys which has started to
     turn up in so diverse architectures as X86 Quark, ARC
     and a slew of ARM systems. So even though it's not an
     expander, it's generic enough to be available for all.

   - We add a mock GPIO on Crystalcove PMIC after a long
     discussion with Daniel Vetter et al, tracing back to
     the shootout at the kernel summit where DRM drivers
     and sub-componentization was discussed. In this case
     a mock GPIO is assumed to be the best compromise
     gaining some reuse of infrastructure without making
     DRM drivers overly complex at the same time. Let's
     see.

ACPICA updates for v4.1-rc1

 - Fix for a GPE handling regression on Dell Latitude D600 that
   caused GPE signaling to stop working on that machine, which
   appears to be due to a hardware glitch, but it used to work
   and it can be made work again in a relativly straightforward
   way (Rafael J Wysocki).

 - Fix for a mutex unlock regression related to the handling of ACPI
   tables introduced during the 3.16 development cycle (Octavian Purdila).

 - _REV modification to always return 2 which has been done by all
   versions of Windows since NT and the firmware people started to
   use it to distinguish between OSes in their AML and do some silly
   and wrong things on that basis (Bob Moore).

 - Fixes and cleanups related to the acpi_physicall_address data type
   including one stable-candidate fix for an issue occasionally occuring
   on 64-bit machines running 32-bit kernels where using offsets provided
   by the firmware may lead to address overflows (Lv Zheng).

 - External() opcode support infrastructure needed for recompiling
   disassembled ACPI tables in some cases including interpreter
   modification to ignore that opcode (Bob Moore).

 - Support for the "Windows 2015" string in _OSI (Bob Moore).

 - GPE debug interface change to return values read from hardware
   registers (Lv Zheng).

 - Removal of the __DATE__ macro usage in tools (Rasmus Villemoes).

 - Assorted minor fixes and cleanups (Lv Zheng, Rickard Strandqvist,
   Bob Moore).

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